A few things I have noticed.
1. In a short 12 hours (I know not a lot of time), I have made only about 0.0002 BTC. This is really low. At this rate, on my rig, I may hit 0.0006 BTC a day, which is about half what I was making just mining Ravencoin by itself.
2. Sometimes cards will just stop mining. The mining process for that card is gone, there is nothing in the logs, but HashAuger still thinks the card is mining. If i restart HashAuger things work again. I've never experienced this before, even happens with no-overclock at all.
3. Equihash is supposed to be the best algorithm for my rig according to whattomine.com, but it is very far down the list of profitable algorithms, that it isn't even worth having miningpoohub.com on my pool list at all. This seems very contradictory to everything I've read from other people.
I still haven't found what pools and alogorithm combinations are the best for my rig and I don't know that I ever will, there is just too many combinations that I could test this for months and still not hit every combination. For now, I have zergpool and blazepool enabled and it's just a wild guess. I can see how all the options are overwhelming for people.
Those earnings are low and I can understand your disappointment. But those estimates are not what I see on my test machines and what other users are reporting. I purposely spread my mining work thin across more pools than I would normally recommend to increase my test coverage. Yet, I'm still making the minimum payouts on BlazePool every few days plus weekly payouts from a couple other pools and steady earnings on MiningPoolHub. And I'm talking about a setup with fewer than 10 GPUs total and not all of those are mining all the time because they are in my development machine.
Considering that Zergpool and Blazepool are similarly sized pools, you may want to choose one or the other and then add a smaller pool such as HashRefinery or Blockmasters. I am working on some enhancements to help mine larger shares in new coins on the bigger pools since it is possible to switch too frequently on the really popular ports of these bigger pools.
I've only seen the issue of the software getting detached from a mining process once and that was when Windows Update took control of my desktop to notify of the latest Creator's Update. If it is happening multiple times, please let me know which mining software and algorithms are being used so I can look into it further.
As for Equihash, I have seen the estimates increase on both MiningPoolHub and NiceHash recently. I don't know which calculator you used on WhatToMine, but the one that doesn't include pool factors often skews results because it doesn't take into the account the advantages of mining more difficult coins on a pool. But Equihash was just a suggestion based on the type of memory in your 1070s.
I understand it can be overwhelming to try to find the most profitable pool and their optimal settings along with the most stable miners for certain types of cards. However, the alternative of trying to dictate a single solution for all users can also cause its share of problems. I try to provide flexibility so users can make adjustments that fit their rigs and mining strategy.